TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - On-the-ground health and safety experiences of non-union casino hotel workers: a focus-group study stratified by four occupational groups
JO  - American journal of industrial medicine
A1  - Romero, Diana
A1  - Flandrick, Kathleen
A1  - Kordosky, Jason
A1  - Vossenas, Pamela
SP  - 919
EP  - 928
VL  - 61
IS  - 11
N2  - OBJECTIVES: To understand the health- and safety-related experiences of specific occupations among non-union casino hotel employees to identify processes leading to worker health and safety risks. <br><br>METHODS: Using purposive, criterion sampling, 61 workers participated in 13 recorded focus groups (FGs). A semi-structured topic guide addressed work-related health and safety impacts, workplace hazards, and management responses, among others. FG transcripts were analyzed following grounded theory methodology. Demographic and occupational health information was collected via survey. <br><br>RESULTS: Codes (97) were collapsed into seven themes: activities/exposures negatively affecting health/safety; barriers to health/safety; injury/pain occurrences; coping mechanisms; job vulnerability; management policies/enforcement; lack of management concern for employees. From these themes emerged the Dynamic Theoretical Framework of Employee Health and Safety Risk. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: "Management's lack of concern" creates a negative environment whereby employer-controlled factors jeopardize employees' health and safety. Interventions targeting management's lack of concern for employee health and safety could favorably change work-based risks.<br><br>© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0271-3586
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajim.22896
ID  - ref1
ER  -